SCADA Software (FAST/TOOLS)
Learn more about why global companies rely on FAST/TOOLS for their critical infrastructure operations:
· High performance, 400,000 updates per second throughput
· High capacity and broad scalability with up to 16 million points per server and 4096 servers per system
· Truly open architecture with industry-standard best practices applied throughout
· Platform independence through continuous support of Linux, Unix and Windows
· Future-proof lifecycle management and simplified upgrades
· Minimum TCO via our highly simplified deployment and version management
· Out-of-the-box redundancy with 99.999% availability
· Provide a powerful HMI with flexibility and capabilities that surpass standard SCADA HMI’s
· Support mobile devices (Web browser based) with its HTML5 HMI environment
· Enterprise Automation Solution (EAS) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture
· As a Service (XaaS), cloud and virtualization support
Architecture
Yokogawa has designed FAST/TOOLS to enable the most effective transfer of data and knowledge. That is why so many global industrial companies and utilities rely on FAST/TOOLS to deliver high levels of data integration and guaranteed data integrity. FAST/TOOLS is a complete SCADA software environment with the following features:
Through its core software, FAST/TOOLS supports multiple operating systems including Linux, Unix and Windows. To interface with third-party applications, FAST/TOOLS applies numerous industry standards.
Broad compatibility enables seamless integration with systems that are used for accounting, asset management, Big Data analytics, information technology, modeling, optimization and simulation.
Our comprehensive lifecycle management approach eliminates the uncertainties and risks in system migration. Regardless of the application or OS, all customer systems are always on the FAST/TOOLS update track and development roadmap.
Since FAST/TOOLS maintains very limited ties to the operating system (OS) and is not built on any third-party software, it allows updates such as new Windows versions to be rolled out with minimum effort. Deployment is greatly simplified and version updates incur zero down-time.
With FAST/TOOLS, concerns over live update rates and throughput are things of the past. Even on relatively low-bandwidth satellite networks, FAST/TOOLS processes 400,000 updates per second.
The compact, efficient FAST/TOOLS architecture means that there is never a requirement for separate servers to handle alarming, real-time data, historian or any other SCADA functions.
Scalability, system expansions and system sizing are also non-issues. FAST/TOOLS supports database capacities up to 16 million points in a single server, 4096 servers in a system and virtually unlimited historical archives.
FAST/TOOLS puts today’s best operator practices into service. Yokogawa’s active participation in standards development allows us to incorporate the industry’s latest concepts in advanced decision support, alarm management (ISA 18.2), operator visualization (ISA101), control room design (ISO 11064) and procedure automation (ISA106).
Advanced Operating Graphics (AOG) is a consulting service provided by Yokogawa to design PCS user interface based on human factors and knowledge engineering in order to improve users’ situation awareness.
· Identify user, task and functional requirements for operation that require HMI support.
· Analyze the requirements in order to determine the needs and conditions to meet for the project.
· Provide guidance on designing and developing user interface including display layout, navigation, hierarchy, color pallet, data visualization, etc.
· Submit final report of achievements in the project.
Figure AOG Consulting Process
To help customers towards a more effective HMI strategy we have developed a symbol library adopting the ISA-101 philosophies. It is designed to develop and establish a consistent approach to effective HMI development and implementation for manufacturing and especially process industries. End users, automation suppliers and system integrators can use this standard to create more effective HMIs, which will lead to higher productivity and a safer operating environment. The template and Object Oriented structures based on this library contribute as comprehensive elements towards more effective high-performance HMI’s.
The FAST/TOOLS Real-Time Operations Platform is the core that facilitates data integration from a broad array of sources and enables sharing of all information with the relevant stakeholders.
The basic functions of FAST/TOOLS are associated with Web-based Graphical User Interface, data acquisition, interaction with field equipment, real time event/alarm management, trending, reporting and storing the real-time and historical information. FAST/TOOLS is furthermore accompanied by system installation and configuration tools, a data management system and real-time networking for communication between the modules. Additional modules can be added as plug-ins to the networking layer to increase the required functionality.
FAST/TOOLS is a truly distributed system. When individual FAST/TOOLS servers are interconnected, information from any server can be visualized anywhere in the system. This is not only limited to tag values but also alarm information and historical data.
For example, a Web HMI server allows users to visualize and interact with information from any other server in the Enterprise. The Alarm Overview shows alarms combined among all the servers. Trends can combine historical data from different servers and process values from different servers are shown in the same display. This functionality does not require tags to be replicated to a central server; instead, they are truly distributed.